Come to the "Champagne Air": Changing Promotional Images of the Kansas Climate, 1854-1900

De Bres, Karen

Great Plains Quarterly, v23 n2 p111-126 Spr 2003

Promotional materials, which portrayed the Kansas climate, resources, and landscape in optimistic tones, were a common medium used to smooth the rough edges of the physical environment to Euro-American settlers in the second half of the nineteenth century. This article examines promotional literature of that era and evaluates the strategies pursued.